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Fish Radio with Laine Welch

Galley Tables

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Though it
took him all day, Alaska Governor Sean Parnell never quit trying to get to
Kodiak on Friday. Due in early in the day to attend the ribbon-cutting of the
new KEA wind farm and to inspect the Kodiak Launch Complex, the weather lifted
in the late afternoon, and Parnell was finally able to land.

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The Kodiak
High School Bears football team got off on the right foot in Northern Lights
Conference play Saturday, by downing the Skyview Panthers 18 to 2.

The
Panthers, one of two teams from Soldotna, got on the scoreboard first with a
safety late in the second period, in a game that was shaping up to be a
defensive battle. When the Bears regained possession, they marched down the
field with under two minutes to go in the half and got a touchdown run by Riley
McFarlin from the 11. The ensuing point after resulted in two points after a
broken play. That was all the scoring until the fourth quarter when the Bears
added a touchdown and a field goal.

The Bears
are on the road three of the next four weeks, starting with Soldotna on
Saturday, and followed a week later by Houston. The homecoming game is against
the red-hot Kenai Kardinals, followed by the regular season finale' in Homer.

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History's
first commercial brewers worked under the sign of the alchemist. But instead of
turning metal to gold their specialty was turning grain into beer. Since they
didn't know about yeast, those early beer-making alchemists attributed the brewing
process to magic. They were known to perform elaborate rituals in an attempt to
replicate whatever worked for them in the past. These days the science of
making beer is better understood. Instead of conducting rituals and conjuring
spells, modern brewers can take classes to quench their thirst for better beer
making. And as KMXT's Diana Gish reports, Kodiak's local brewers are doing just
that.

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After
months of delay and debate, the Kodiak City Council last night voted to give
the borough enough land on Near Island to build a new headquarters for the
Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The resolution, which was first postponed
in March, and then again in May, transfers the land to the Kodiak Island
Borough, which would build the structure and lease it to the state.

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For the
fourth year in a row Kodiak trawlers have voted to forego some of their pollock
openings to allow processors the chance to finish up with pink salmon before
getting another slug of fish. Al Burch is the executive director of the Alaska
Whitefish Trawlers Association. He says the vote to keep their nets out of the
water was unanimous.